Over 50 Indian-origin candidates in UK general election

London, May 7 , 2015: Over 50 candidates of Indian origin are contesting in Thursday's British general election, the outcome of which should be known by Friday morning. Those in the fray include Sajid Javid of the Conservative party, who is half Indian and has been a cabinet minister for culture, media and sport in the government now in office since 2010. He is standing from Bromsgrove. Also fighting his old seat of Leicester East is Keith Vaz of the Labour party who is the seniormost of the Indian-origin MPs and has been a member of the House of Commons from 1987, not to mention his sister Valerie Vaz, also a Labour candidate. Besides, junior ministers in the Conservative party-Liberal Democrat coalition led by Prime Minister David Cameron, Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire) and Priti Patel (Witham), both Conservatives, are also seeking re-election among 10 sitting MPs of Indian descent. Among the incumbents, Paul Uppal, Conservative, is facing a tough challenge in his constituency of Wolverhampton South West. The same is true of Alok Sharma, also Conservative, in Reading West; but he has a slightly better chance of pulling it off. It is not an easy ride for Valerie Vaz in Walsall South, either; but she has a fair chance of winning. Other sitting candidates are expected to be returned comfortably.